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The Pros and Cons of Implementing
the Internet in the Classroom
Making Sense of the
Hype


References

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Carleton, Gwen (1997). "Championing Accessibility in Cyberspace." The New York Times CyberTimes. (http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/041797trace.html - April 25, 1997)

Castells, Manuel (1997) The Rise of the Network Society. (1996, Basil Blackwell, UK), lecture, CUNY, March 27, 1997

December, John (1997). "Internet Tools Summary--Level 3 TOC." December Communications, Inc. (April 22, 1997) (http://www.december.com/net/tools/toc3.html - April 21, 1997)

Dede, Christopher (1995). "Testimony to the U.S. Congress, House of Representatives; Joint Hearing on Educational Technology in the 21st Century." Committee on Science and Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities (http://www.newhorizons.org/article_dede5.html - April 23, 1997)

Dubois, Laurent (forthcoming, 1997) in Educateur

"Electronic Technology Makes It Possible For Students To:" (1996). New Horizons for Learning. (http://www.educ.washington.edu/building/article_ausetech.html - April 12, 1997)

Giussani, Bruno (1997). "European Politicians' New Mantra: Wiring Up Schools to the Internet." The New York Times CyberTimes. (http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/euro/040197euro.html - April 25, 1997)

Hargittai, Eszter (1996.) "The Internet and International Stratification." (unpublished bachelor's thesis) (http://cs.smith.edu/~hargitta/Thesis - April 14, 1997)

Kelly, Tina (April 23, 1997). "School District Organizes Itself Around Internet". The New York Times CyberTimes. (http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/042397school.html - April 25, 1997)

Kronholz, June (1997). "Getting Wired, U.S. Schools Face Steep Learning Curve." The Wall Street Journal (http://www.schoolwire.org/uselags.htm - April 21, 1997) - cited in SchoolWire on-line service (http://www.schoolwire.com)

"Level of Access and Use of Computers." (1993.) U.S. Census Bureau.http://www.census.gov/population/socdemo/computer/compusea.txt - April 23, 1997

Montgomery, Kathryn C. (July-August, 1996). "Children in the Digital Age". The American Prospect. (http://epn/prospect/27/27mont.html - April 25, 1997)

Reinventing Schools, The Technology is Now! (1995) (National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering) (http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/techgap/welcome.html - April 23, 1997) image: /newmodel.html (workforce.gif)

Starr, Paul (July-August, 1997). "Computing Our Way to Educational Reform." The American Prospect. (http://www.princeton.edu/~starr/articles/27star.html - April 23, 1997)

Technology in Schools Project, Technology 2000 http://www.eddept.wa.edu.au/centoff/tisp/default.htm - April 25, 1997

Treuhaft, Jack (January, 1995). "Changes in Education." (http://www.algonquinc.on.ca/edtech/change.html - April 12, 1997)

Umbach, Ken (1997). The Internet: A Californai Policy Perspective. California Research Bureau, California State Library


Other Resources (web documents - pages or projects - mentioned in the paper)

Kent School District Welcome Page http://www.kent.wednet.edu/ - April 25, 1997

Trace Research and Development Center http://trace.wisc.edu/ - April 25, 1997

  • Bobby http://www.cast.org/bobby/ - of the Center for Applied Special Technology An easy to use program that will help you make web pages accessible to those with disabilities. It will also find HTML compatibility problems that prevent pages from displaying correctly on different web browsers. - April 25, 1997

Web66 (http://web66.coled.umn.edu/) - April 21, 1997

Net Day http://www.netday.org - April 25, 1997

(Schoolwire Archives - http://www.schoolwire.org/archives/archive.htm - April 23, 1997).


Data Sources (not necessarily quoted)

CyberAtlas Geographics http://www.cyberatlas.com/geographics.html - April 21, 1997

U.S. Census Bureau: http://www.census.gov - April 23, 1997


Search Engines (used in the research process for this paper)

ProFustion (http://www.designlab.ukans.edu) - April 25, 1997

AltaVista (http://www.altavista.digital.com) - April 25, 1997

Deja News (http://www.dejanews.com) - April 35, 1997


Other Reference Materials (not cited)

Berenfeld, Boris (April, 1996.) "Linking Students to the Infosphere." T.H.E. Journal. (http://www.thejournal.com/past/april/64bere.html - April 21, 1997)

December, John. "Units of Analysis for Internet Communication." (http://www.usc.edu/dept/annenbert/vol1/issue4/december.html - April 22, 1997)

Dede, Christopher and David Palumbo. "Implications of Hypermedia for Cognition and Communication." Research Papers (a shortened version of the study was published in the International Assocation for Impact Assessment Bulletin 9, (1-2 Summer, 1991) 15-28. (http://www.virtual.gmu.edu/hyperpdf.htm - April 25, 1997)

Cadler, John. "Implementing Technology in Education: Recent Findings from Research and Evaluation Studies." (http://www.fwl.org/techpolicy/recapproach.html - April 12, 1997)

Goodnough, Abby (April 19, 1997.) "Internet Access Puts Burden of Control on Schools." The New York Times CyberTimes. (http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/041997netday.html - April 19, 1997)

Peterson, Melody. (April 17, 1997.) "Bell Atlantic Plan Neglects Poor, Advocate Says/." The New York Times CyberTimes. (http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/041797fiber.html - April 17, 1997)

Petersen, Melody. (April 22, 1997.) "Trenton Tells Bell Atlantic To Speed Up Urban Cable Connections." The New York Times CyberTimes. (http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/042297fiber.html - April 22, 1997)

Mendels, Pamela. (April 21, 1997.) "On Net Day, Model Program Wires a School in Silicon Alley." New York Times CyberTimes. (http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/digimet/042197digimet.html - April 21, 1997)

Papert, Seymour. (June 4, 1996.) "Looking at Technology through School-Colored Spectacles" (http://epn.org/conferen/spapert.html - April 8, 1997)

Resnick, Mitchel and Natalie Rusk. (July-August, 1996.) "Access is Not Enough: Computer Clubhouses in the Inner City." The American Prospect. (http://epn.org/prospect/27/27resn.html - March 2, 1997)

Turkle, Sherry. (March-April, 1997.) "Seeing Through Computers: Education in a Culture of Simulation." The American Prospect. (http://epn.org/prospect/31/31turkf.html - April 8, 1997)


The Pros
and Cons of Implementing the Internet in the Classroom

Eszter Hargittai,
The Pros and Cons of
Implementing the Internet
in the Classroom

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